24
Jan
Partnership CEO 'surprised' over Charlotte's Amazon HQ2 miss, talks lessons learned from pursuit
Ronnie Bryant said his conversation with a project lead at Amazon last week was less than five minutes.
In that phone call, the Amazon representative and Bryant, president and CEO of the Charlotte Regional Partnership, discussed five metrics out of 34 that the retail giant evaluated when looking at 238 responses across North America. Seattle-based Amazon issued a request for proposals in September stating it was looking for a city to develop a second headquarters — worth 50,000 jobs and billions…
Source: Arizona Business Journal
